Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-03-31
THURSDAY, MARCH 81, 1887.
WONDERFUL.
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WHY THIS BOOM

What does it mean? Simply an
awakening, a realization of our own
possessions. We have taken an in
~ventory of our chattles and effects.
We have one of the greatest counties
in the State Of Missouri. Where is
the county that is more deserving and
better prepared to accept and sustain
a boom than Audrain She possesses
an abundance of fine bltuminous coal, |
in fact, the greater portion Of the
whole county is underlaid with deep
coal beds-five coal mines are being
worked proftably and successfully
within a radius of five miles of our
city. Cur citizens are enterprising,
liberal and energetic. 1t took but
about 4S hours to organize a mining
stock company to subscribe a capital
of $4,000, and in less than 90 days
we have our charter and nearly 10,
900 acres of land leased, contract let
and boring commenced. Are WI not
keeping pace with the outer world?
Our merchants all carry large and
full stocks and sell for q very slight
advance on the eastern market. We
have five merchants whose combined
working capital alone will aggregate
every cent of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. Mexico never
lacks for capital or energy in any
enterprise. We found, with our
abundance of coal to bring manufac-
turing establishments, We must have
water. Water we wanted, and water
we got, pure and in abundance. No
town or city can boast of a better
and more systematic water-works
than ours. Next came light. In Or
der to run our factories by night and
illuminate our streets and dwellings,,
we needed light. How long did it
take US to establish an electric plant
of 100000 candle power? We pros
pered and grew. We traded and
snapped among ourselves until the
outer world saw what we were doing,
and now they come by rail and COW
cred wagons to Join us and lend a
helping hand. Some bring capital
and some bring honest bone and sinew
to help build up our little city until
in q short while it will no longer be
a little city. Real estate has advanced
rapidly, but not ficticiously. Every
step forward that we have taken has
been well surveyed and well calcula-
ted. We have no boom TO deceive
but q boom to profit by and stay with
us. Eastern capital is coming in
rapidly, not to be loaned at enormous
commission, but to be planted and
take the chances with US. Our farms
are being rapidly improved. We
know for a positive fact that since
September last our hardware mer'
chants have sold to our farmer:
5000 pounds of barbed wire
count so pounds to the quarter mile
and see what a single string thai
would make-357 miles; enough tt
encircle our county several times
Does this look like q fictitious or {
come-to-stay boom? Real estate If
advancing rapidly. The sound O
hammer and saw is being heard from
every quarter. Come, come, stranger
come? You are all welcome. Oul
iatch-string is out.
URBAN VIEWERS CIGAR
Ranks among the leading institu'
lions of the kind in North Missouri
1t is with a great deal Of pride that
we claim MIR. Weimer as one of GU,
citizens, and his factory as one of I'LL
leading enterprises. During Mr.
Weimer's three years residence ir
our city, he has established a mos
enviable reputation for himself and
for his cigars. Mr.. Weimer manu-
features at present two leading
brands-La Carolina and Weimer's
Signature-the former a 10 cent and
the latter 8 cent cigar, both oil
which have the name of being ths
''best made" These brands are Just.
~ termed by many, the smokers
idols, having the finest natural fiavors
and luxuriant aroma known. Both
of these brands are very popular, tc
ray the least, his factory being con.
tinually taxed beyond its capacity tc
supply the demand, which is en-
stantly on the increase. Besides
these two leading brands, be manu-.
features a number of others, and i:
prepared to make at all times cigars
10 order. at prices ranging from $2i
to s75 per thousand. He now keep.
employed nine men, all union cigar
makers, who work under the eigh'
hour rule. To say Mr.. Weimer'.
factory is q benefit to our city, woult
be putting 1t very mild. He pays te
his employees over 500 per week
nearly every dollar Of which is spen
in this city, as all the men employed
live here. Mr.. Weimer has met will
encouragement st home, as at thirty
eight places Of business his good!
a be found on sale, the merchant
approaching the fact that it pays t,
p~atronize home industry. BesideI
lis sale a. home, Mr.. Weimer sell
his cigars to the merchants in th'
adjacent towns and villages, some o
fhem going as far from Mexico a
Denver, Colorado. Since Janusr,
=, 1886, Mr.. Weimer has paid ahou